Any vaccination target we set will ultimately be arbitrary. That being said, I don't think any experts disagree that if we have (say) 80%+ of Australians vaccinated the risk of COVID-19 becomes far less pressinghttps://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1403128604775444484 …
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Variants may change the calculation slightly, but realistically if we were at 80% of the whole country and nearly 100% of adults vaccinated the risk of having an outbreak that seriously threatened the healthcare system would be very low
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is it one of being motivated not to fail (again) politically when the nth announcement is not met, thus no political accountability? suspect this is large driver of no targets. +ve message framing on the benefits of vaccinating (opening up, seeing family) may help vaccine uptake
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I think also, it’s important to acknowledge that there *are* harms to keeping the border shut for another year, or whatever they are thinking. COVID elimination is an important goal but it’s disingenuous to pretend it isn’t hurting people to block travel.
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Especially in Australia and New Zealand, where so many people have family overseas who may not be able to visit or vice versa. It’s been almost 1.5 years.
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I found this modelling useful… gives some indication of the consequences of various benchmarks.https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1403113506476412933 …
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They really need some kind of protocol to verify vaccination at immigration/border control. I'm unaware of any such "yellow card" kind of documentation that works internationally for proof of C19 vaccination.
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"health advice" is doing lots of heavy lifting for what are transparently political decisions without a clearly correct medical answer
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